I believe it is horse nettle also. When I was growing up the name I heard was stinging nettle. Do not try to pull these with your bare hands.
Any day you wake up on the sunny side of the grass is a good day.
"The moving hand writes and having writ moves on. Neither all thy piety nor all thy wit can lure it back to cancel half a line nor all thy tears wash out a word of it." The Rubiyat by Omar Khayyam